Australia The First Hundred Years

Being a Facsimile of Volumes I & II of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia - 1888

Edited by Andrew Garran

Ure Smith, 1976, ISBN 0725402202, black and white photographs and illustrations throughout, illustrated title page, large hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions; dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping and chipping, top half of back missing (see photographs)

“The Picturesque Atlas was designed to give a graphic and summarised conception of Australasian history and life from the days of the earliest Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English and French navigators to the 1880s, embracing such salient events as the landing of Captain Cook in 1770, the discoveries of voyagers, explorers and pioneer missionaries; the founding of the different colonies; the establishment of representative government and d the marvellous political, commercial and social development which characterises the people of Australia.
Over 700 illustrations adorning these pages were engraved on steel and wood by the best engravers procurable in America and Australia.”